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J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American boys who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case.
While being transported by Sheriff Frank Carr, a group of seven to eight men held the Sheriff at gun point, taking Adolfo and later hanging him from a tree. Lynching of James and Alonzo Green: African-American Columbus: Jones County: Georgia: 1915 Mob ran into them while hunting for the murderer of white farmer Stevenson, Cordella: African-American
Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. [1] [2] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie. [3]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando’s City Hall was a place of mourning, anger and suspicion Tuesday evening as dozens gathered on its steps demanding answers about the death of a woman found hanging from ...
Death of Keith Warren. Keith Warren was a 19-year-old African-American teenager who was found hanging from a tree in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1986. On Tuesday, July 29th 1986, Keith received a call from friends and went to hang out with them but never returned home. The next day, July 30th 1986, his mother, Mary Chambers, called the ...
Nadir of Americanrace relations. Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas.
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The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916.